** Get your tickets to Missy Mazzoli's Proving Up at the Old Cowtown Museum
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The Homestead Act of 1862 — by which settlers, mainly west of the Mississippi River, could acquire public land they’d farmed, or “prove up” — contained an odd provision: To be considered for the land grant, the homesteads, among other requirements, had to include a glass window. Based on a true story, Ms. Mazzoli conjures aural bleakness with an uncanny, confident mixture of instrumental savagery and eerie lightness. The shadowy sound of guitars drifts through the music; chaotic refractions of hoedown fiddling occasionally explode within a landscape of jittery unease. Mazzoli’s colorful, fragmentary, and evocative contemporary score perfectly complements Vavrek’s terse, cogent texts.
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Proving Up
Composed by Missy Mazzoli
Libretto by Royce Vavrek
Adapted from the short story by Karen Russell.
Presented under license from G. Schirmer Inc., copyright owners.
Commissioned by the Washington National Opera
by Opera Omaha and by Miller Theatre at Columbia University
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